This particular Rex robot board has been specially designed in order to have it deliver developers with a high-level control over microcontrollers, sensors, and motor drivers. To explain further, “There are two general classes of electronics used in robot hardware: microcontrollers (ex. Arduino) and single-board computers. Microcontrollers are great for projects that only require a single program to be run, quickly and without overhead, like controlling LEDs and motors (here’s a video of Mike using one in a robot). Single-board computers are great for anything you’d need a cheap, small computer for – like networking applications and image processing.”
We are looking at a Texas Instruments DM3730 chipset with an 800MHz core, 512MB LPDDR RAM, a USB Host port, a microSD memory card slot, a camera module port, 3.5mm Stereo Audio-in and Stereo Audio-out jacks, among others.